Staff Product Designer — AI-Driven Scientific Workflows

lilasciences; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 133,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Lila Sciences is seeking a Senior Product Designer II / Staff Product Designer for the Software Product team. You will shape core Lila App experiences enabling scientists, ResOps, and LAS users to plan, execute, and learn from scientific workflows.

You will translate complex scientific workflows and AI-native product capabilities into intuitive, trustworthy software and partner across product, engineering, scientists, and operations to design scalable experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design, UX design, or interaction design experience.
• Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design and shipped product impact.
• Experience designing complex, data-rich, technical, or operational software products.
• Ability to simplify ambiguous technical workflows into clear product experiences.
• Strong interaction design, information architecture, and systems thinking skills.
• Experience partnering with product managers, engineers, and domain experts.
• Comfort using modern AI tools for design exploration, prototyping, and synthesis.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end Lila App workflows for scientists, ResOps, and LAS users.
• Translate scientific and operational complexity into clear, intuitive product experiences.
• Partner with product, engineering, science, and operations to define user problems and tradeoffs.
• Prototype AI-native interactions that help users understand and act on system recommendations.
• Conduct lightweight research, workflow mapping, and usability testing with internal users.
• Contribute scalable design patterns that improve consistency across the Lila App.
• Use AI-enabled design tools to accelerate exploration, iteration, and communication.

Skills

End-to-end design

Systems thinking

Interaction design

UX design

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Lila Sciences is seeking a Senior Product Designer II / Staff Product Designer for the Software Product team. You will shape core Lila App experiences enabling scientists, ResOps, and LAS users to plan, execute, and learn from scientific workflows.

You will translate complex scientific workflows and AI-native product capabilities into intuitive, trustworthy software and partner across product, engineering, scientists, and operations to design scalable experiences.